IA-T-07Level 1 · Signal
Account flagged compromised by the identity provider
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A threat signal from the identity provider: its risk engine marked the person's account as compromised, based on sign-in patterns, leaked credentials or confirmed abuse.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- DE.CM-03
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1078
The definition, in detail
Definition
It is the strongest threat signal in this domain.
Example
The identity provider flags a support engineer's account as compromised after a sign-in from a new country followed by a mass mailbox-rule change.
How it is measured
- Source
- Identity provider & MFA
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- account.compromised
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR, Framework research
How it is used
Programs count "Account flagged compromised by the identity provider" per person from Identity provider & MFA and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 1 cohort, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "account flagged compromised by the identity provider" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
"Account flagged compromised by the identity provider" (IA-T-07), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ia-t-07-account-flagged-compromised-by-the-identity-provider
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The initial assessment
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